Tim: Last Saturday, I got somewhat tipsy while watching four Eurovision selections simultaneously; one of them was Spain. Former UK X Factor contestant Ruth Lorenzo won, with a song that didn’t quite match up to her potential, but never mind. What didn’t win was this.
Tim: Now, I wanted this to win for three reasons: first, he’s very good looking (yes, I’m shallow, but no more than Eurovision’s primary voters).
Tom: To be fair, even I’d agree with that.
Tim: Second, he’s got a name that’s about as Spanish as you can get.
Tom: And a sound that’s pretty damn Spanish while still being modern.
Tim: And that’s my third point: it’s a damn good song. The title translates as ‘Even If The World Ends’, and according to a popular online translation system it’s all about keeping on trying and never giving up. And man, that’s a good message, with no crappy rubbish about love and all that, and one that’s well represented in the song.
Tom: Agreed: it’s a good sign for me if, on the first listen, I find myself tapping my feet along. This managed exactly that.
Tim: It is clearly a Spanish sound (good), and it also has the necessary ‘keep trying’ effort and energy going and going and going and after a while it becomes difficult not to rhyme going with boing, but anyway.
Tom: Are you still drunk, by any chance?
Tim: I’d say no; the empty bottle of port on my desk may discredit that though. That doesn’t change the fact that this is a brilliant track, and if it wasn’t destined to end up buried as a failed Eurovision attempt it could probably do very well remixed on the club circuit. Maybe someone can sort that out?